August 11, 1950 (6 pages)

Se rete tet q Phone for a free estimate or * es [s\ ane 4 — Nevada City, California, Friday, August 1], 1950 NUEGET Social aed, Mis. Beatrice Butcher, Society Reporter, Phone 486 . ‘ ‘. Grass Valley. : : Chib Vews Mrs. Margaret Setzer and Robert Hanley Exchange Vows at Lamson Home Mrs. Margaret Setzer and Robert Hanley were united in marriage Saturday evening in a garden ceremony at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Lamson, Town Talk. Rev. Max Christiansen, rector of Trinity Episcopal church of Nevada City, officated. ! A grape arbor beside a swimming pool was decorated with white bells, flowers and white . satin ribbon leading to an improvised. alta between two tall candelabra. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Dorothy Kitts. The bride wore a long powder blue chiffon gown with shirred détail and carried a corsage of gardenias’ and orchids. ' As~soon as the ceremony was performed there was ringing of many bells and an accordion furnished music for dancing in the patio. Ps Refreshments were served on a lawn softly lighted by Japanese lanterns. More than sixty ‘guests were present at the ceremony, many from Berkeley and San Francisco. : The former Mrs. Setzer and her children, Barbara, Susie and George, have, made their home in Town Talk for the past five years. She was for a time engaged in the lumber industry. Hanley has one son, Sherman. He Was-secretary of the Nevada County Farm. Bureau for, two years. He has recently accepted a position as farm bureau advisor for.Sonoma county and the new. family will make their home in Santa Rosa. TriCounty Convention At Homewood Resort. At Lake Tahoe Thursday California Federation of Women’s Clubs Tri-County convention will be held Thursday at Homewood Resort, according to an announcement by Mrs. Leslie E. Nielsen, Placerville, publicity chairman of the organization. Mrs. Nielsen réported the convention will meet at 10 a.m. and luncheon is scheduled at noon. All club members are welcome to attend and reservations should be placed with Mrs. Everett O’Rourke, president of the Tahoe City club, by Monday. The flesh of the kangaroo. is prized by natives of Queensland. LAWNMOWER SHARPENED AND REPAIRING All Work Guaranteed Crenshaw’s, 401 E. Main Street, Phone 24 for Pickup and Delivery Service. tf yn a ss, Ab. THE PRIDE OF THE FAMILY For durable charm and lasting service you can’t beat gleaming HARDWOOD FLOORS from the Builders and Condard pre-finished oak flooring. stop in this week. You can refloor a 12x15 room with 25/32" by 2%” clear refinished oak. flooring for as low as $80: $8 down and $4.31 per maqnth. Pine flooring as low as $35. BUILDERS AND CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY N.C.-G.V. Highway, Glenbrook , sumers' Lumber Company. We }} . have both clear pine and stanNeighborly Club and’ Blue Tent Garden Club Picnic Neighborly Club of ‘Harmon Ridge and the Blue Tent Garden Thursday, last week, in. Memorial ‘Park, Grass Valley. Children and grandchildren of the members were the guests of: honor. Mrs. Wilbur Wilson furnished ice cream for the:picnic and ‘Mrs. W. L. Davies and Mrs. William Morgan were in charge of. arrangements. Special guests were Mrs. James McBride, Mrs. Robert Lewis and daughter, Dorothy, Mrs. Thomas Quinn and daughters, Carol and Peggy. ; Mrs. Quinn, the former Miss Dorothy. Arbogast, has recently arrived from Lincoln, Nebr., and is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clemént Arbogast, of Blue Tent. BPWC Prepare Plans for Fall Flower Display and Silver Tea on Sept. 23 A Fall Flower Display and Silver Tea and the August dinner meeting highlighted discussion of the Business and _ Professional Women’s Club of Nevada City. av a forum meeting held at Mrs. Betty Leiter’s home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Doris O’Shaughnessy was also accepted into the group at the forum. The Flower Display and Silver Tea will be held Saturday, Sept. 23. The display will be holiday arrangements offered by members of the club and Mrs. Harold Chastain, prominent Auburn club women, has been invited to comment on the géod and:bad points of arrangements. ‘TInvitdtions to all garden clubs will ‘be issued: Further details will be announced later. The August dinner meeting is to be the International Relations dinner with Mrs. Hazel Estes as chairman and will be held at the Nyack Lodge Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m: Mrs. Leiter will be hostess for the evening. Reservations can be made with Mrs. Gertrude Zollars, phone 75, and members needing transportation are asked to contact Mrs. Estes or Mrs. O’Shaughnessy. At the conclusion of the meeting Mrs. Leiter served delicious ‘refreshments. * VISIT PENRYN Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott visited Penryn Tuesday evening to attend Penryn Chapter No. 159 of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Marguerite Naite, Worthy Matron, extended a welcome to the following Nevada City Eastern. Star members: Mrs. Carol Morgan, Mrs. Edith Forstner, Mrs. Jane Sbaffi and the Elliotts, who drove the group to Penryn. NDGW PICNIC Thirty-five members of Laurel Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, gathered “at Deschwanden Hall Tuesday evening and enjoyed a pot-luck dinner. Bingo was played. RECUPERATING Mrs. Sam Weiss is home again from her recent stay at the Community hospital and being cared for by Sam’s sister, Mrs. Beatrice Troutner, Oakland. Friends are happy to know she is making a speedy recovery. CONVALESCING Mfs. Ray V. Worthley has been. home for a week from the Mercy hospital, Sacramento, where she underwent surgery. She is up a part of the day and her friends are happy over her recovery. HERE FROM IOWA John Austin, Hawarden, Iowa, is visiting here with his daughter, Mrs. Ira Kennedy, Murchie Road. VISITING Miss Florence Meservey is visiting her sister, Miss Mary Meservey, Town Talk. peas ATTEND BOARD MEETING Mrs. Elizabeth Leiter, Mrs. -Arthur Hoag and Mrs. Belle Brock attended a Tri-County. Federation Phone Grass' Valley 1050 of Women’s Clubs board meeting . the. Methodist church of Carson '. City, Nev.,-Saturday afternoon at Club held the annual joint picnic . Star, will visit Evangeline chapMiss JoAnn Waechter and Robert Baker Married in Carson City Ceremony Robert Baker and Miss Jo Ann Waechter, both of Nevada City, exchange marirage vows in 3 o’clock, with Rev. James Steinferdt, pastor, reading the lines. The bride. was attended by: her classmate, Miss Blanche Silva, of The bride wore a chartreuse gabardine suit and carried a corsage of white orchid. Her accessories were navy, blue and white. Miss Silva wore a pink gabardine suit with gray accessories, and wore a double gardenia. Mrs. Joseph Waechter, mother of the bride, wore a summer print dress and Mrs. Mark Baker, mother of the groom, wore a summer dress. . Jack Phelan, North San Juan, was best mah. Following ‘the ceremony a wedding dinner was held at the Senator hotel in Carson City. Others in the wedding party were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Waechter, the bride’s brother, of Kingsburg; Mrs. Ardith Phelan, North San vada City, Mrs. Mark Baker, Miss Silva, Phelan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.“ Waechter and daughter, Barbara, and the newly-married couple. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are both graduates of Nevada City high school. They honeymooned at ‘Lake Tahoe and are at home at the Airway Motel. Baker is employed by ‘the Yuba River Lumber company. James White Claims Ethel Dunbar of Wolf as Bride _Miss Ethel Dunbar of Wolf and James P. *White, Nevada City, were married Sunday afternoon at Trinity Episcopal church by Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of the church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Dunbar of Wolf. She was gradiiated from Placer high school. White is the son of Mrs. Mildred White, 315 Clay street. He attended Nevada City high school and is a veteran of service in the Aleutian islands during World War II. He is in the lumbering business with Mervin Lutz. Music for the. wedding was presented by Mrs. Luella Anderson on the organ, and Miss Honi Ray, who sang two selections. Mrs. Don Butler, Wolf, was the bride’s attendant and’ Roland Garwood, Nevada City, was best man. The bride wore a blue tailored suit with white accessories. The couple will make a home in Nevada City. CAPITAL DRILL TEAM HERE Drill team of Rainbow chapter, Sacramento, Order of the Eastern ter No. 9 next Tuesday evening at the regular meeting, the first since summer vacation. Mrs. Frances Henderson, Rainbow chapter’s Worthy Matron, is to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott, Worthy Patron and Worthy Matron of Evangeline chapter, will conduct the meeting with. refreshments to follow. SECRETARY Miss Ruth Libbey, daughter of vada City, is visiting with her parents, and while here is temporarily employed as secretary in the law offices of John L. Larue. Miss Libby was graduated from the University of California June 18 with an A.B. degree in political stvience. GARDENEERS MEETS Nevada City Garden Club met yesterday at the home of Mrs. Charles Stevens. Miss Gertrude Goyne and Mrs. Elizabeth Ashe were co-hostesses. Mrs. H. W. Whipp’s is this year’s president and planned an excellent program with talks on potted plants, tuberous begonias and day lilies. VISIT IN NARA Mr. and Mrs. Harleth Brock and their daughter, Harlene, visited in Napa last weekend with Mrs. Brock’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Williams. : ENJOY TAHOE / Mr. and Mrs. Byron Brock and Joseph Onetto of North Hollywood drove to Lake Tahoe and Truckee this week, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell was the former president of the Tahoe Women’s club. HOUSE GUESTS ; _Mrs. Chester Johnson of San Jose and her two children are Juan; Miss Shirley Baker, Ne-. , Mr. and Mrs. Carl Libby of Ne. Elsie Flynn Will Be Seated President of Laurel Parlor On Wedensday Evening. Installation of new officers of: Laurel Parlor No. 6, the Native Daughters of the Golden West, 13 scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Odd Fellows Hall. Deputy Grand President Adele Browning of Columbia Parlor No. 70, French Corral, and a corps of grand. officers will comprise the installing team. __ Officers-elect are: Beryl Granholm, Past” President. Elsie Flynn, President. Elva Lee Sigourney, First Vice President. v Fannie Eden, Second Vice President. Annie Lawrence, Third Vice President. Effie Goering, Marshal. Marcelle Deschwanden, Inside Sentinel. Annie Hullett, tinel. June Kelly, Organist. . Nellie Clark, Recording Secretary. Hyacinth Martz, Financial Secretary. Thelma Butz, Treasurer. Minerva Wright, Edna Maguire, Mary Meservey, Trustees: Outside SenRose Lazzarini was seated as president when the new officers of Sierra Pines Parlor No. 275, Colfax, NDGW, were installed by Deputy Grand President Pauline Patterson of Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Grass Valley, and her officers. Lovely gifts were presented to the Deputy Grand President, and to the retiring President, from Sierra Pines Parlor, and to the Grand Marshal, Past Grand President, 4nd Grand Organist by the Deputyfrand President. Deli refreshments were served in the banquet hall, where lovely red roses graced the festive tables. Beautiful hand-made place cards, honoring the new President, Deputy Grand President, and Supervising Deputy Grand President carried out the colors of the organization. There was.a large attendance of members and guests from Columbia Parlor, ‘French Corral; Manzanita Parlor, Grass Valley, and Laurel Parlor, Nevada City. The Deputy: Grand President was congratulated upon her work as were the new officers.—Sarah Charonnat. ON FURLOUGH Enjoying Nevada county’s attractions and visiting with parents at Edwards Crossing over the weekend were Capt. and Mrs. W. D. Delameter and children, of Mather Field; Major and Mrs. C. M. Delameter, military instructor at Santa Barbara high-school, just returned from training activities at Camp Lewis, Wash. Subject to military uncertainties they will enjoy the mountains for another two weeks. HOME FROM HOSPITAL Don Eden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Eden, Indian Flat, arrived home Tuesday from Jones Memorial hospital where he has been since his automobile accident of Friday on the Downieville highway. He will be forcea to stay in bed for some time before resuming his studies at Sacramento state college where he is a sophomore. VISITING A GOOD COUNTRY Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Johnson have as guests at their new home in Town Talk, her mother, Mrs. year-old Lynn Hoagland,' Sacramento. They will remain in Nevada City until week’s end. IN SAN FRANCISCO Mrs. Fred Waechter and Mrs. Joe Waechter motored to San Francisco where Mrs. Leona Waechter has gone for medical treatment. AUGUST BIRTHDAY FETE Next. Wednesday’s meeting of the Nevada City Soroptimist club will honor members with birthdays in August, according to Mrs. Dorothy Randolph, president. Mrs. Randolph is now employed by Alpha Stores in Grass Valley, but plans to attend the regular weekly luncheon meetings at the National hotel. HERE FROM MELROSE Mrs. Christine Kite of Melrose, accompanied by her sister, are many friends. — ATTEND DUTCH FLAT , Mr. and Mrs. Joe Forstner, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott and Mrs. Elfriede Lawrence attended all officers’ night at Dutch Flat Order of the Eastern Stars ThursW. Lizesly of Oroville and 13-. k. 4rip to French lake. visiting in Nevada City with her’ . Man 4 J Although. the telephone was invented on the Atlantic seaboard FIRST SUC i first long distance telephone line in the world for swift communica~tion in the hydraulic_mines-of.the-San Juan ridge. company were racing with the Western’ Union Telegraph ‘Company for control of the “speaking” machines. Bell and his associates worked feverishly to perfect their invention. Thomas Hdisdn* and his associates on behalf of the Western Union, worked t6 ‘perfect theirs. The supreme court gave the Bell company the exclusive rights to the telephone although Edison’s invention of the carbon transmitter made Bell’s instruments commercially practicable. The telephones installed by the pioneer Ridge Telephone Company were Edison phones as they were. popularly called although the name, “American Speaking Telephone Co.” was stamped on each box. In the years that have passed since the court’s decision, Edison’s part in the development of the telephone has been almost forgotten. According to the records of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the’ first long distance line was 45 miles in length, and ran between Boston, Mass., and Providence, R. I. It was built in 1880. The Ridge company’s line was 60 miles in length, and-extended from French Corral in Nevada county to Milton, in Sierra county. It was built in 1878. Original letters and documents still in existence prove the date. Furthermore the New England line was unsuccessful and was immediately torn down. The Ridge line was not only successful but was operated until after the beginning of the present century. The first annual statement of the Ridge Telephone company showed quite a deficit. Expenses from Dec. 1, 1878, to Dec. 1, 1879, were $2,993.08;-and receipts were $464.03 after paying $201.51 to Western Union for interline messages. Profit or no profit, the convenience of the system is what the operators wanted. They were in the gold mining business. The San Juan Ridge was the center of operation for three mammoth hydraulic gold mining companies—the Milton. Mining and Water Company, French Corral; the Eureka Lakes and Yuba Canal Companies, North San’ Juan; and the North Bloomfield Blue Gravel Mining Company, North Bloomfield. All three were, in the late seventies, huge corporations controlling mining: opeartions on the tremendously rich ridge. Some of their mines were as much as sixty miles from the mountain reservoirs high in the Sierras, and towards the end of summer, when water was scarce, quick communication became vital. When news of the invention of the telephone reached these miners they were struck with the apparent ability'of this instrument to annihilate space. It was just what they wanted—if it would work. Instant control from the mines over the various ditch systems that, carried veritable rivers of water down the ridge meant the elimination of immense water losses, which would prolong. the mining season—and that meant more gold. : ae These three companies “formed the Ridge Telephone Company and commissioned the California Electrical Works in San Francisco to build a 60-mile line—and to make it work! The contractors built it and it worked—for more than twenty years. The lion’s share of the credit for the success of the historic pioneer telephone belongs to Paul Seiler, who later became a San Francisco distributor of telephone equipment. There were 30 instruments on the line when-it was opened for service, and approximately twenty of these were in toll offices; usually the latter were located in postoffices in the towns the line traversed. These formed the nerve-center of the San Juan ridge. The Western Union Telegraph Company had a direct line from Nevada City to North San Juan, where interline arrangements were made with the Ridge Telephone Company. This placed the most remote community on the 1idge in prompt communication with the rest of: the U. S. News flew swiftly, and business transactions were speeded wonderfully by the “speaking” telephone: signed by R. McMurray, superintendent, it appears the telephones were not to be used except by those in charge of the offices. A message, called a dispatch, was written on a regular form by, the. sender; the operated “sent” it. Dispatches to the San Juan office, not more than 20 words, 50 cents; each additional 20 words or less, <5 cents. From San Juan, and from or to any other office, not more than 10 words, 25 cents; each additional two words or less, 25 cents. Anything smaller than two-bits was “chicken feed” in those days. One interesting rule was: “Persons in charge of offices will be allowed to use the line for their own business free of charge, but ac the use of the line exhausts the battery power, it ig not to be used fane language through the telephone is strictly prohibited.” In the sixties and seventies this area was perhaps foremost in the nation in the perfection and adoption of new inventions. Here the first industrial use was made of the electric arc-lamp, the Burleigh air-drill and the electric transmission of power. And here modern tunnel building began when Hamilton Smith Jr. built the Malakoff tunnel. Up to that time tunnels were excavated. from ene eend, sometimes from both. But in addition to working from the two ends, Smith sank five shafts and worked 12 faces simultaneously to complete in months a job that. would have taken years. Nevada City Lionettes will not meet during August. Wednesday, Sept. 13, will be the next business and’ dinner meeting at the Gold Nugget Inn. TEST YOUR I. Q. 1. What is the average length of English words? 2. How often is a crime committed? ; 3. Where is the brightest lighthouse on the U. S: coast? > ATTEND INSTALLATION " Mrs. Eleanor Bolton, Mrs. Edna Maguire, Mrs. Sarah Charonnat, Mrs. Annie Hooper and Mrs. Annie Lawrence of Nevada City attended installation rites of Sierra Pines Parlor, Native Daughters of thé Golden West, in Colfax on Thursday, Aug. 3.A AT YOSEMITE Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wasley of Nevada City and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hawke of Gold Flat have returned from a vacation trip to Yosemite national ‘park, Mrs. Hawke and Mrs. Wasley are sisters. WE MUST BE IN HILLSBOROs KNOW WHERE TO FISH Mr, and Mrs. R. W. Renfree have had as house guests recently Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hayden of Piedmont, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hansen of Oakland ‘whe joined the Renfrees on a fishing 4. Whose portrait is on the blue ages? 5. How many Rhodes scholar ships are assigned annuall United States? “= IN SANTA ROSA Col. and Mrs. John Shannonhouse are spending the week in Santa Rosa which was their home before moving to Nevada City. OM4-AUIIYT, *S ‘SUOUNTD WIMP *p : ‘lamodatp ~ueB9 000'00S'S Seg ‘or0QqstyrEy. ‘¢ *Spuodas 2‘gTi £I9A2 PoyzTUIUIOD sy anny Beat SONSI}BIS BPET 0} Surpr0.0y 4 “OT ANOA IS3L WEEKEND LIBERTY Edgar Wasley spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Kate Wasley. He is now serving in the at Donner Lake Lodge Friday. house guests of Mrs. Lou Powell: day evening. 0} SAsMSUYy navy and is station at Alameda. pale the daring long distance experiments of the Ridge Telephone ‘Com— pany in Nevada:and Sierra counties made history in the latter years . of the nineteenth century.’ The company built and operated the It was in the days when Alexander Graham Bell and his Bell ~ oe From an ancient printed list of rules of the Ridge company, for idle talking.” Another rule stated: “The use of obscene or pro° federal tax stamp on cigaret packS 4

Se rete tet q Phone for a free estimate or * es [s\ ane 4 — Nevada City, California, Friday, August 1], 1950 NUEGET Social aed, Mis. Beatrice Butcher, Society Reporter, Phone 486 . ‘ ‘. Grass Valley. : : Chib Vews Mrs. Margaret Setzer and Robert Hanley Exchange Vows at Lamson Home Mrs. Margaret Setzer and Robert Hanley were united in marriage Saturday evening in a garden ceremony at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Lamson, Town Talk. Rev. Max Christiansen, rector of Trinity Episcopal church of Nevada City, officated. ! A grape arbor beside a swimming pool was decorated with white bells, flowers and white . satin ribbon leading to an improvised. alta between two tall candelabra. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Dorothy Kitts. The bride wore a long powder blue chiffon gown with shirred détail and carried a corsage of gardenias’ and orchids. ' As~soon as the ceremony was performed there was ringing of many bells and an accordion furnished music for dancing in the patio. Ps Refreshments were served on a lawn softly lighted by Japanese lanterns. More than sixty ‘guests were present at the ceremony, many from Berkeley and San Francisco. : The former Mrs. Setzer and her children, Barbara, Susie and George, have, made their home in Town Talk for the past five years. She was for a time engaged in the lumber industry. Hanley has one son, Sherman. He Was-secretary of the Nevada County Farm. Bureau for, two years. He has recently accepted a position as farm bureau advisor for.Sonoma county and the new. family will make their home in Santa Rosa. TriCounty Convention At Homewood Resort. At Lake Tahoe Thursday California Federation of Women’s Clubs Tri-County convention will be held Thursday at Homewood Resort, according to an announcement by Mrs. Leslie E. Nielsen, Placerville, publicity chairman of the organization. Mrs. Nielsen réported the convention will meet at 10 a.m. and luncheon is scheduled at noon. All club members are welcome to attend and reservations should be placed with Mrs. Everett O’Rourke, president of the Tahoe City club, by Monday. The flesh of the kangaroo. is prized by natives of Queensland. LAWNMOWER SHARPENED AND REPAIRING All Work Guaranteed Crenshaw’s, 401 E. Main Street, Phone 24 for Pickup and Delivery Service. tf yn a ss, Ab. THE PRIDE OF THE FAMILY For durable charm and lasting service you can’t beat gleaming HARDWOOD FLOORS from the Builders and Condard pre-finished oak flooring. stop in this week. You can refloor a 12x15 room with 25/32" by 2%” clear refinished oak. flooring for as low as $80: $8 down and $4.31 per maqnth. Pine flooring as low as $35. BUILDERS AND CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY N.C.-G.V. Highway, Glenbrook , sumers' Lumber Company. We }} . have both clear pine and stanNeighborly Club and’ Blue Tent Garden Club Picnic Neighborly Club of ‘Harmon Ridge and the Blue Tent Garden Thursday, last week, in. Memorial ‘Park, Grass Valley. Children and grandchildren of the members were the guests of: honor. Mrs. Wilbur Wilson furnished ice cream for the:picnic and ‘Mrs. W. L. Davies and Mrs. William Morgan were in charge of. arrangements. Special guests were Mrs. James McBride, Mrs. Robert Lewis and daughter, Dorothy, Mrs. Thomas Quinn and daughters, Carol and Peggy. ; Mrs. Quinn, the former Miss Dorothy. Arbogast, has recently arrived from Lincoln, Nebr., and is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clemént Arbogast, of Blue Tent. BPWC Prepare Plans for Fall Flower Display and Silver Tea on Sept. 23 A Fall Flower Display and Silver Tea and the August dinner meeting highlighted discussion of the Business and _ Professional Women’s Club of Nevada City. av a forum meeting held at Mrs. Betty Leiter’s home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Doris O’Shaughnessy was also accepted into the group at the forum. The Flower Display and Silver Tea will be held Saturday, Sept. 23. The display will be holiday arrangements offered by members of the club and Mrs. Harold Chastain, prominent Auburn club women, has been invited to comment on the géod and:bad points of arrangements. ‘TInvitdtions to all garden clubs will ‘be issued: Further details will be announced later. The August dinner meeting is to be the International Relations dinner with Mrs. Hazel Estes as chairman and will be held at the Nyack Lodge Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m: Mrs. Leiter will be hostess for the evening. Reservations can be made with Mrs. Gertrude Zollars, phone 75, and members needing transportation are asked to contact Mrs. Estes or Mrs. O’Shaughnessy. At the conclusion of the meeting Mrs. Leiter served delicious ‘refreshments. * VISIT PENRYN Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott visited Penryn Tuesday evening to attend Penryn Chapter No. 159 of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Marguerite Naite, Worthy Matron, extended a welcome to the following Nevada City Eastern. Star members: Mrs. Carol Morgan, Mrs. Edith Forstner, Mrs. Jane Sbaffi and the Elliotts, who drove the group to Penryn. NDGW PICNIC Thirty-five members of Laurel Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, gathered “at Deschwanden Hall Tuesday evening and enjoyed a pot-luck dinner. Bingo was played. RECUPERATING Mrs. Sam Weiss is home again from her recent stay at the Community hospital and being cared for by Sam’s sister, Mrs. Beatrice Troutner, Oakland. Friends are happy to know she is making a speedy recovery. CONVALESCING Mfs. Ray V. Worthley has been. home for a week from the Mercy hospital, Sacramento, where she underwent surgery. She is up a part of the day and her friends are happy over her recovery. HERE FROM IOWA John Austin, Hawarden, Iowa, is visiting here with his daughter, Mrs. Ira Kennedy, Murchie Road. VISITING Miss Florence Meservey is visiting her sister, Miss Mary Meservey, Town Talk. peas ATTEND BOARD MEETING Mrs. Elizabeth Leiter, Mrs. -Arthur Hoag and Mrs. Belle Brock attended a Tri-County. Federation Phone Grass' Valley 1050 of Women’s Clubs board meeting . the. Methodist church of Carson '. City, Nev.,-Saturday afternoon at Club held the annual joint picnic . Star, will visit Evangeline chapMiss JoAnn Waechter and Robert Baker Married in Carson City Ceremony Robert Baker and Miss Jo Ann Waechter, both of Nevada City, exchange marirage vows in 3 o’clock, with Rev. James Steinferdt, pastor, reading the lines. The bride. was attended by: her classmate, Miss Blanche Silva, of The bride wore a chartreuse gabardine suit and carried a corsage of white orchid. Her accessories were navy, blue and white. Miss Silva wore a pink gabardine suit with gray accessories, and wore a double gardenia. Mrs. Joseph Waechter, mother of the bride, wore a summer print dress and Mrs. Mark Baker, mother of the groom, wore a summer dress. . Jack Phelan, North San Juan, was best mah. Following ‘the ceremony a wedding dinner was held at the Senator hotel in Carson City. Others in the wedding party were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Waechter, the bride’s brother, of Kingsburg; Mrs. Ardith Phelan, North San vada City, Mrs. Mark Baker, Miss Silva, Phelan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.“ Waechter and daughter, Barbara, and the newly-married couple. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are both graduates of Nevada City high school. They honeymooned at ‘Lake Tahoe and are at home at the Airway Motel. Baker is employed by ‘the Yuba River Lumber company. James White Claims Ethel Dunbar of Wolf as Bride _Miss Ethel Dunbar of Wolf and James P. *White, Nevada City, were married Sunday afternoon at Trinity Episcopal church by Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of the church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Dunbar of Wolf. She was gradiiated from Placer high school. White is the son of Mrs. Mildred White, 315 Clay street. He attended Nevada City high school and is a veteran of service in the Aleutian islands during World War II. He is in the lumbering business with Mervin Lutz. Music for the. wedding was presented by Mrs. Luella Anderson on the organ, and Miss Honi Ray, who sang two selections. Mrs. Don Butler, Wolf, was the bride’s attendant and’ Roland Garwood, Nevada City, was best man. The bride wore a blue tailored suit with white accessories. The couple will make a home in Nevada City. CAPITAL DRILL TEAM HERE Drill team of Rainbow chapter, Sacramento, Order of the Eastern ter No. 9 next Tuesday evening at the regular meeting, the first since summer vacation. Mrs. Frances Henderson, Rainbow chapter’s Worthy Matron, is to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott, Worthy Patron and Worthy Matron of Evangeline chapter, will conduct the meeting with. refreshments to follow. SECRETARY Miss Ruth Libbey, daughter of vada City, is visiting with her parents, and while here is temporarily employed as secretary in the law offices of John L. Larue. Miss Libby was graduated from the University of California June 18 with an A.B. degree in political stvience. GARDENEERS MEETS

Nevada City Garden Club met yesterday at the home of Mrs. Charles Stevens. Miss Gertrude Goyne and Mrs. Elizabeth Ashe were co-hostesses. Mrs. H. W. Whipp’s is this year’s president and planned an excellent program with talks on potted plants, tuberous begonias and day lilies. VISIT IN NARA Mr. and Mrs. Harleth Brock and their daughter, Harlene, visited in Napa last weekend with Mrs. Brock’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Williams. : ENJOY TAHOE / Mr. and Mrs. Byron Brock and Joseph Onetto of North Hollywood drove to Lake Tahoe and Truckee this week, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell was the former president of the Tahoe Women’s club. HOUSE GUESTS ; _Mrs. Chester Johnson of San Jose and her two children are Juan; Miss Shirley Baker, Ne-. , Mr. and Mrs. Carl Libby of Ne. Elsie Flynn Will Be Seated President of Laurel Parlor On Wedensday Evening. Installation of new officers of: Laurel Parlor No. 6, the Native Daughters of the Golden West, 13 scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Odd Fellows Hall. Deputy Grand President Adele Browning of Columbia Parlor No. 70, French Corral, and a corps of grand. officers will comprise the installing team. __ Officers-elect are: Beryl Granholm, Past” President. Elsie Flynn, President. Elva Lee Sigourney, First Vice President. v Fannie Eden, Second Vice President. Annie Lawrence, Third Vice President. Effie Goering, Marshal. Marcelle Deschwanden, Inside Sentinel. Annie Hullett, tinel. June Kelly, Organist. . Nellie Clark, Recording Secretary. Hyacinth Martz, Financial Secretary. Thelma Butz, Treasurer. Minerva Wright, Edna Maguire, Mary Meservey, Trustees: Outside SenRose Lazzarini was seated as president when the new officers of Sierra Pines Parlor No. 275, Colfax, NDGW, were installed by Deputy Grand President Pauline Patterson of Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Grass Valley, and her officers. Lovely gifts were presented to the Deputy Grand President, and to the retiring President, from Sierra Pines Parlor, and to the Grand Marshal, Past Grand President, 4nd Grand Organist by the Deputyfrand President. Deli refreshments were served in the banquet hall, where lovely red roses graced the festive tables. Beautiful hand-made place cards, honoring the new President, Deputy Grand President, and Supervising Deputy Grand President carried out the colors of the organization. There was.a large attendance of members and guests from Columbia Parlor, ‘French Corral; Manzanita Parlor, Grass Valley, and Laurel Parlor, Nevada City. The Deputy: Grand President was congratulated upon her work as were the new officers.—Sarah Charonnat. ON FURLOUGH Enjoying Nevada county’s attractions and visiting with parents at Edwards Crossing over the weekend were Capt. and Mrs. W. D. Delameter and children, of Mather Field; Major and Mrs. C. M. Delameter, military instructor at Santa Barbara high-school, just returned from training activities at Camp Lewis, Wash. Subject to military uncertainties they will enjoy the mountains for another two weeks. HOME FROM HOSPITAL Don Eden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Eden, Indian Flat, arrived home Tuesday from Jones Memorial hospital where he has been since his automobile accident of Friday on the Downieville highway. He will be forcea to stay in bed for some time before resuming his studies at Sacramento state college where he is a sophomore. VISITING A GOOD COUNTRY Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Johnson have as guests at their new home in Town Talk, her mother, Mrs. year-old Lynn Hoagland,' Sacramento. They will remain in Nevada City until week’s end. IN SAN FRANCISCO Mrs. Fred Waechter and Mrs. Joe Waechter motored to San Francisco where Mrs. Leona Waechter has gone for medical treatment. AUGUST BIRTHDAY FETE Next. Wednesday’s meeting of the Nevada City Soroptimist club will honor members with birthdays in August, according to Mrs. Dorothy Randolph, president. Mrs. Randolph is now employed by Alpha Stores in Grass Valley, but plans to attend the regular weekly luncheon meetings at the National hotel. HERE FROM MELROSE Mrs. Christine Kite of Melrose, accompanied by her sister, are many friends. — ATTEND DUTCH FLAT , Mr. and Mrs. Joe Forstner, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott and Mrs. Elfriede Lawrence attended all officers’ night at Dutch Flat Order of the Eastern Stars ThursW. Lizesly of Oroville and 13-. k. 4rip to French lake. visiting in Nevada City with her’ . Man 4 J Although. the telephone was invented on the Atlantic seaboard FIRST SUC i first long distance telephone line in the world for swift communica~tion in the hydraulic_mines-of.the-San Juan ridge. company were racing with the Western’ Union Telegraph ‘Company for control of the “speaking” machines. Bell and his associates worked feverishly to perfect their invention. Thomas Hdisdn* and his associates on behalf of the Western Union, worked t6 ‘perfect theirs. The supreme court gave the Bell company the exclusive rights to the telephone although Edison’s invention of the carbon transmitter made Bell’s instruments commercially practicable. The telephones installed by the pioneer Ridge Telephone Company were Edison phones as they were. popularly called although the name, “American Speaking Telephone Co.” was stamped on each box. In the years that have passed since the court’s decision, Edison’s part in the development of the telephone has been almost forgotten. According to the records of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the’ first long distance line was 45 miles in length, and ran between Boston, Mass., and Providence, R. I. It was built in 1880. The Ridge company’s line was 60 miles in length, and-extended from French Corral in Nevada county to Milton, in Sierra county. It was built in 1878. Original letters and documents still in existence prove the date. Furthermore the New England line was unsuccessful and was immediately torn down. The Ridge line was not only successful but was operated until after the beginning of the present century. The first annual statement of the Ridge Telephone company showed quite a deficit. Expenses from Dec. 1, 1878, to Dec. 1, 1879, were $2,993.08;-and receipts were $464.03 after paying $201.51 to Western Union for interline messages. Profit or no profit, the convenience of the system is what the operators wanted. They were in the gold mining business. The San Juan Ridge was the center of operation for three mammoth hydraulic gold mining companies—the Milton. Mining and Water Company, French Corral; the Eureka Lakes and Yuba Canal Companies, North San’ Juan; and the North Bloomfield Blue Gravel Mining Company, North Bloomfield. All three were, in the late seventies, huge corporations controlling mining: opeartions on the tremendously rich ridge. Some of their mines were as much as sixty miles from the mountain reservoirs high in the Sierras, and towards the end of summer, when water was scarce, quick communication became vital. When news of the invention of the telephone reached these miners they were struck with the apparent ability'of this instrument to annihilate space. It was just what they wanted—if it would work. Instant control from the mines over the various ditch systems that, carried veritable rivers of water down the ridge meant the elimination of immense water losses, which would prolong. the mining season—and that meant more gold. : ae These three companies “formed the Ridge Telephone Company and commissioned the California Electrical Works in San Francisco to build a 60-mile line—and to make it work! The contractors built it and it worked—for more than twenty years. The lion’s share of the credit for the success of the historic pioneer telephone belongs to Paul Seiler, who later became a San Francisco distributor of telephone equipment. There were 30 instruments on the line when-it was opened for service, and approximately twenty of these were in toll offices; usually the latter were located in postoffices in the towns the line traversed. These formed the nerve-center of the San Juan ridge. The Western Union Telegraph Company had a direct line from Nevada City to North San Juan, where interline arrangements were made with the Ridge Telephone Company. This placed the most remote community on the 1idge in prompt communication with the rest of: the U. S. News flew swiftly, and business transactions were speeded wonderfully by the “speaking” telephone: signed by R. McMurray, superintendent, it appears the telephones were not to be used except by those in charge of the offices. A message, called a dispatch, was written on a regular form by, the. sender; the operated “sent” it. Dispatches to the San Juan office, not more than 20 words, 50 cents; each additional 20 words or less, <5 cents. From San Juan, and from or to any other office, not more than 10 words, 25 cents; each additional two words or less, 25 cents. Anything smaller than two-bits was “chicken feed” in those days. One interesting rule was: “Persons in charge of offices will be allowed to use the line for their own business free of charge, but ac the use of the line exhausts the battery power, it ig not to be used fane language through the telephone is strictly prohibited.” In the sixties and seventies this area was perhaps foremost in the nation in the perfection and adoption of new inventions. Here the first industrial use was made of the electric arc-lamp, the Burleigh air-drill and the electric transmission of power. And here modern tunnel building began when Hamilton Smith Jr. built the Malakoff tunnel. Up to that time tunnels were excavated. from ene eend, sometimes from both. But in addition to working from the two ends, Smith sank five shafts and worked 12 faces simultaneously to complete in months a job that. would have taken years. Nevada City Lionettes will not meet during August. Wednesday, Sept. 13, will be the next business and’ dinner meeting at the Gold Nugget Inn. TEST YOUR I. Q. 1. What is the average length of English words? 2. How often is a crime committed? ; 3. Where is the brightest lighthouse on the U. S: coast? > ATTEND INSTALLATION " Mrs. Eleanor Bolton, Mrs. Edna Maguire, Mrs. Sarah Charonnat, Mrs. Annie Hooper and Mrs. Annie Lawrence of Nevada City attended installation rites of Sierra Pines Parlor, Native Daughters of thé Golden West, in Colfax on Thursday, Aug. 3.A AT YOSEMITE Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wasley of Nevada City and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hawke of Gold Flat have returned from a vacation trip to Yosemite national ‘park, Mrs. Hawke and Mrs. Wasley are sisters. WE MUST BE IN HILLSBOROs KNOW WHERE TO FISH Mr, and Mrs. R. W. Renfree have had as house guests recently Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hayden of Piedmont, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hansen of Oakland ‘whe joined the Renfrees on a fishing 4. Whose portrait is on the blue ages? 5. How many Rhodes scholar ships are assigned annuall United States? “= IN SANTA ROSA Col. and Mrs. John Shannonhouse are spending the week in Santa Rosa which was their home before moving to Nevada City. OM4-AUIIYT, *S ‘SUOUNTD WIMP *p : ‘lamodatp ~ueB9 000'00S'S Seg ‘or0QqstyrEy. ‘¢ *Spuodas 2‘gTi £I9A2 PoyzTUIUIOD sy anny Beat SONSI}BIS BPET 0} Surpr0.0y 4 “OT ANOA IS3L WEEKEND LIBERTY Edgar Wasley spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Kate Wasley. He is now serving in the at Donner Lake Lodge Friday. house guests of Mrs. Lou Powell: day evening. 0} SAsMSUYy navy and is station at Alameda. pale the daring long distance experiments of the Ridge Telephone ‘Com— pany in Nevada:and Sierra counties made history in the latter years . of the nineteenth century.’ The company built and operated the It was in the days when Alexander Graham Bell and his Bell ~ oe From an ancient printed list of rules of the Ridge company, for idle talking.” Another rule stated: “The use of obscene or pro° federal tax stamp on cigaret packS 4